News & Events from Holy Cross

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is pleased to announce the expansion of the availability of its ATLASerials to the alumni/alumnae of its member institutions, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology being one of them. Through this new program, known as ATLAS for ALUM, the electronic resource, ATLASerials, an online, full-text collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholarsand theologians, is freely accessible to graduates of Holy Cross for a three-year period. Users can read articles or research the history of a topic from as early as 1924 to the present. Currently, researchers are able to use ATLASerials as a searc h tool to retrieve images of the pages in more than one hundred forty different journals.

Reverend Father Aristidis Arizi 

 The Reverend Deacon Aristidis Arizi was ordained to the holy priesthood by Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta at the Annunciation Cathedral in Atlanta. Priests of several Orthodox jurisdictions participated in the ordination liturgy.

Father Aristidis was born in Epiros and at a young age left Greece with his family and moved to Panama where they became members of the Annunciation of the Theotokos parish in Panama City. He served as an acolyte and chanter in the parish. After high school he attended the University of Panama and received a degree in teaching. He then left Panama and went to Hellenic College and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.

The Very Rev. Joachim Cotsonis, PhD, Director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library, presented a scholarly paper at the 10th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography held at the University of Ioannina, Greece, on October 1-3, 2009. The paper was entitled "The Image of the Doubting Thomas on an Unpublished Seal of the Sixth Century". It was co-authored by Dr. John Nesbitt of Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Center for Byzantine Studies.

The Orthodox InterSeminary Movement will meet on the campus of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology this weekend, November 6 and 7. Seminarians from Holy Trinity Seminary, Christ the Savior Seminary and St. Vladimir's Seminary in New York, St. Tikhon's Seminary in Pennsylvania, and a seminarian from St. Herman's in Alaska, approximately 25 in all from outside Holy Cross, will attend.

The keynote address will be given on Saturday morning at 11:30 in the Booras Room by the Very Rev. Archimandrite Joachim Cotsonis, PhD, Director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center at Holy Cross. The talk is entitled "The History of the Image of and devotion to St. Nicholas".

The Archbishop Iakovos Collection has loaned the icon of St. John the Theologian, c. 1800, to the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) of the American Bible Society in New York for the special exhibition and reception in honor of the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Batrtholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome. The exhibit, entitled "Scripture, Image, Life: Orthodox Christianity", will continue through the 24th of January 2010.

The Rev. Deacon Aristidis Arizi, who will graduate from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in May of 2010, will be ordained to the Holy Priesthood on Friday, November 13, 2009, the feast of our Father among the Saints, John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. His Eminence, Metropolitan Alexios of the Metropolis of Atlanta, will officiate at the Annunciation Cathedral, 2500 Clairmont Road, N.E., Alanta, Georgia, at 9:30am.

Here is a list of upcoming events at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology.  For a complete list, see our calendar of events.